Hume AI

Hume AI is an Emotion & Prosody Models company founded in 2021 and based in New York, United States. It has raised $62.7M in total funding, most recently a Series B in 2024.

Hume AI builds empathic voice models that detect and generate emotional prosody in speech for more human-like conversational agents. Raised $50M Series B led by EQT Ventures in 2024; founded by Alan Cowen, former Google AI researcher.

Hume AI pioneered the emotion-aware voice layer, enabling agents to respond to tone and affect, not just words.

hume.ai Emotion & Prosody Models

United Statesprivate

At a glance

Total raised

$62.7M

last round series b

Headcount

51-200

approximate · public range

Headquarters

New York

United States

Founded

2021

5 years active

Status

Private

Emotion & Prosody Models

Patents on file

Funding history

Total raised

$62.7M

Rounds tracked

Latest stage

Series B

Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Mar 1, 2024	Series B	$50M	—	EQT Ventures
Jan 1, 2023	Series A	$12.7M	—	Union Square Ventures

Hume AI

At a glance

Funding history

In the news

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Federal court action lodged against Hume

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Leadership

Products

EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)

Most recent patents

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